前の前の?

先輩

During my course on post-war Tokyo the professor mentioned the book 三四郎 as a good way of starting to understand some aspects of how things changed so I'm poking at the text I found here: 夏目漱石 三四郎

I ran quickly (second sentence...) into a bit I don't understand:
このじいさんはたしかに前の前の駅から乗ったいなか者である。

What does the 前の前の駅 mean here? Is it as simple as "two stations ago/back?" Or is it that because the author was dozing (as stated in the previous sentence) it's more like "a station we stopped at a while ago" in the same way that 昔々 is "long ago?"

骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう

"ex" cancels what comes afterwards. So an "ex-ex-wife" would be a woman one had previously divorced and subsequently remarried. Of course, you would never hear such a term used except jokingly....and never in front of the ex-ex-wife.

先輩

We tend to start with ex-wife for the most current, then we start with numbers. So if she was the one you married first and you've had five you would refer to the first one as your first wife. Second, third, fourth, ex-wife, wife, and in some cases next wife.

破落戸

"ex" cancels what comes afterwards. So an "ex-ex-wife" would be a woman one had previously divorced and subsequently remarried. Of course, you would never hear such a term used except jokingly....and never in front of the ex-ex-wife.

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